Re: [TLS] Straw poll on TLS SRP status

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav at gnutls.org>]

On Thursday 24 May 2007, Pasi.Eronen at nokia.com wrote:
> Folks,

> The one remaining issue with TLS SRP is its intended status (Proposed
> Standard, Informational, or Experimental). I and Eric think we need
> more data to determine consensus here, so this message starts a
> two-week straw poll on this issue. (Our apologies that this has
> taken so long; this poll should have been some time ago already.)
> The question is: Do you support advancing draft-ietf-tls-srp as
> Proposed Standard?
>
>    [ ] Yes.
>    [ ] I think Informational/Experimental is better.
>    [ ] I don't care about the status, just get it published.
>    [ ] Something else, please state:

I say Yes. I'll only comment on the IP status. SRP is a patented technology 
and the patent holder offers a free license for the patent. The only problem 
is that there are claims by competitive technology patent holders that their
patent applies to SRP. These are unproven claims. 

I see no reason not to move forward with this draft, based only on unproven 
claims made by companies that hold competitive technologies.

regards,
Nikos

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